The Sun. — London, England, 1818-02-10 00:00:00

;'ARLIA UENT. bat7SE crl tORDS, AIOVINOI, t. 'Connie! Were fully heard 'in die Scots cause Caorpht-11 v. Andersbnatia others." postponed WI Monday. In the cm.‘ , e n 1 '"t l (ordcin Marjoribanks," Connsri were heard in part . ; to tiroteed again 'On WydrireidAy. • The 4ri.sh'cirand Jury Presentments' Bill passed `through a 'Committee of the whole House, and 1013 repofted. Mr. BRADLEY. from the Mint Officer presented nn acconnt•of the number and value of the new 'Cold nod Silver Coins•isstted from the Alint in the year 1817, (iistingAtiOling each species 'of toil); which was laid upon the table. 11.RCENT SUSPENSION OP, 'FETE nAiIEA . S CORPUS ACT. Lord HOLLAND ObserVtd, :that he bad perhaps to apologise to their Lordships for what he was about to state: A petition had been given to hint, he was requested to present to their Lord ships, with a view to its being referred to the'con .sideralion of,their Lordships' Secret Committee, eel!ich petition, he was sorry to say, he had by some means, or through inadvertence, unforto- Irately lost. The petitioners complained of cer tain grievances suffered by thetu dining the recent Suspension ot !Ile liabeas Corpus Act. Among them were many respectable persons ; several were, known to be respectably connected, and men of character and talents, particularly a Mr. Tit:y- Tor. With respect to this petition, he "bad to ac knowledge his own'negligenre, nor only in not laying it upon their Lordships' table, 'but in not, having thoroughly read it.. But he had reason to t'llink (though lie knew the reference was not quite iegillar), that its import was to a great degree si milar to another petition which hail been pre sented in another place: Ihe petition contained ajlegations of facts,which had occurred to the pe'i tioners in the course of the last year, !1.1 which were ivorthy of the nrost serious attention and inquiry of their Lordships.. That at the time the.peti tioners were arret.ted, little or no disturbances reyailed : that whatever seditious practices may Have existed, they ;night in' general be found' to proceed from the conduct of Spies, or other per ions employed by the Government, whiCh persons •ixere charged as the insti l „;atots of much tnisebief : that no effectual inquiries were made respecting the conduct of such persons ; and of their allega tions, the petitioners requested permission to bring for ward legal proof at the Bar of the House. Notwithstanding the untoward circumstance that bad occurred, Ire trusted a similar petition could be brought forward - in tune, before their Lard ihips' Secret Committee should make - their Report.. Sto bi/sicess being before their 'an aflournment, until to-morrow, imnietliitely took place. HOSE OF COMMONS. . General THORNTON postponed, until We!lnrl - the 4th of March, h;s intended motion with regard to the declaration prescribed upon the sub ject of Transobstantiation iuthe Acts of the 25th and 30th of Charles 11. Sir E, lisi I)F.S postponed the mo!ion of which be bad given notice, relative to Copyright, but td what dav could not he collected, frtini the low toile in which the Hon Baronet spoke. SPANISH SLAVE SHIPS. Dr. i i nttt.tmnatt presented a petition from H. E. Page, who described himself as a merchant, and agent for several merchants and .ship-o , sners of the Ilaeannah. The'petition stated, that certain ships belonving to those for thorn the petitioner was agent, and which Were engaged in - the Atri can Slave Trade, had been captured by British cruizers, and subsequently restored by the sentence of our Admiralty Courts. The petitioner there fore prayed that compensation might be granted to his principals out of the sum of 400,000/. which it was proposed by the late Treaty to ad vance to the Spanish Government.--The petition was ordered to lie on the table, and to he printed. 31r. BOSWELL presen'ed a petition from certain Gentlemen and Freeholders of Ayrshire against the Bill lately introduced for erecting Lunatic Asylums. in Scotland, which was ordered to lie on the table and to - he printed. CHIMNEY SWEEPERS' CLIMBING BOYS. Mr. BENNET, in rising to bring in a Bill to prevent the -further use of Climbing Boys, felt it was unnecessary for him to go into details to show the expediency of such a measure, as this had been so ably done by the Committee last year, on whose Report the Bill he wished to bring in was founded. lc was indeed the same Bill (with some alterations) which had been in the House last year, and which had been withdrawn. The House !night wish to know what had occurred since the last Session of Pat liamenf, in.connexiou with this subject, and he was happy to state, that in many great towns public meetings had been called, ind resolutions entered into against employing Climb ing Boys. Ile bud also to intorm them, that since the last Session, no fewer than five fatal ac cidents had occurred, besides many others which lout not re:lnitiated in the loss tt' life. Out of the fi ve cases o f which he had spoken, one in Eng land, and one in Scotland, 'had been marked by great cruelty on the part of the masters. In or der to diminish the consumption of fuel,.. in many. Itouses the flues of the climates were made t;o small that they could only be ascended by boys of a eery tender age. He had seen boys not more than tour, five, or six years old, who were so employ ed, and , who had been bound to their masters as apprentices. Where the flees of chimnies were rartienlarly 'Milli, girls had been used in prefer ence to boys, as on account of their limbs being smaller, they could pass up thimnies which boys even of the, ages he had mentioned could not sweep. The object of this Bill was to prevent, from a time to be named, the forthernse of Climb ing Boys. Those at present in the business he did not propose to remove front their masters t .bot he wished for the time to come that no, chimney sweepers should be pet 'flitted to take boys as ap prentices under 14 years of ate. lie then tuoved lot leave toblingin atilt to abulisil t>Je case of: Climbing Boys. Leave t%asgiven to bring in the Bill. INFORMERS. nitt'iPs presenied a PetitiOn front the `Merchants, Manntiternrers, and others, of Man chester, and of the varions places in its vicinity, praying that - inquiry might be made into**he put rages—aliegefl-to-have been---:--cOmmitted in that neighbonfltood, On ivilieh the Suspension Act had in part been founded. The lionourahle Menther stated, the l'etitioners.from whom he brought this Prtition declared thry had not heels diiposed to any acts of insnhordinAtion ; but,on the contrary, they had endured severe privations With the most exeinplary fortitude. The proceedings which had actually taken place were most grossly exagge rated. 'fiat wisich had been familiarly called the " lilanketeering F,xpedition " hail had nothing illegal in it ; yet the Magistrates bad nor cOnfined tht:mselves to oppose the parties engaged in it, in the usual way, hot they had directed the dragoons to fall in upon them without even reading the Riot Act (which, however, tliey contended there was no occasion to du), and thus 'attacked, they had been compelled to seek for safety in flight. Three hundred persons had been made prisoners, and conveyed to a place of confinement which) pre viously contained three times the number it was originally intended to hold. Many of these per sons, after remaining in prison for six mouths, shot up with the most profligate and abandoned characters, bad at last been discharged withOtit being brought to trial. Though the Magistrates bad put lorth a publicatinu on the 10th March, which stated, a most treasonable conspiracy to have been discovered, which had for its object nothing -less than an open rebellion ; though Mr. Hay, the Stipendiary Citrate, had, on the 23:1 April, described this con piracy to be one of the 'blackest enormity, yet the individuals taken np as concerned in it, hail all been di'scharged without bring brought to trial. The prtiti , »lClS were con vinced that violent proceedings had never been in contemplation, or if such ideas had been at all , entertained, they bad been excited by hited spies and inforthers. Mr. Peteetes said some of the mimes to this • petition were well known to him. He entered at large into all the circumstances connected with, the proceedings referred to in the petition. He (lid not mean to blame the Alegistrates for the part they had taken in them, as he be lieved they themselves had been imposed upon. He, •however, di'elpproved . of the conduct of some of them who hail become treasurers of Orange 'Lodges', or distinguished themselves in other ways as ,Members of associations formed to spread harreti over the country, and to set'on One portion of the people to persecute another. :Previous to the 1011) of March, those who were grilled. the BlanketeerS had met to petition for a Reform of Parliament.. Nothing illegal had passed at their meetings, , though words, bed been used which the misrepresentations of the •spies ot: Government . n)iglitTeasiiy Make_ it ap •pear were of a violent character. .One eperson• opposing tlie.Blanketeerieg Expedi,idm said, " If you' determine ,on, (his, you 'must ilo one of two things —you must cut your way to‘Londow sword in hand, for you will be opposed in the execution of your plen, ote,yo.e real,se uji your mind to go to the-New , Bailey,h) Lanceshire." Another of the meeting had said, ", You candler get to Lon . don without being joinett by persons of a different description . , who veil! endeavour to do mischief, which will be charged upon yolk". The meeting tit which these speeches were made consisted' of 17 persons, net more than two or three of whom were found engaged in the foolish Blanket eering Expedition. Out. of the Magistates, on diecharg ing one.ot these persons, had said, it bed been cidedilated among them thee when they arrived at Birmingham they would receive such assistance, that efterwerde they need not be afraid of opposition. from the civil power ; or from the mi litary. He mentioned this to. show bow incor rect the information possessed by the•iqaeistrates had beeii, since not one of those who had set out on the 'expedition had taken the rout to Birming ham. All hail directed their steps towards Derby. He then proceeded' to show the attempts which had been made to stir up the. people to acts•of 'outrage by three persons, whom lie would desig nate spies, of the name of Lummocks, Deivhurst, and Waddington,. who had been taken up with those whom they had endeavoined to excite to acts of outrage and insubordination, but li berated on the next day. Lummocks had met with a titan of the name of Acres, in company with his brother-in-law, at 'a' public-house.--s Here the language held by Lummocks was so vio lent, that he had been opposed by Acres. They left the public-house, and on passing the residence of Lummocks, he prevailed upon them to go in with them. He then got paper, and wrote as fol -lows :—" England expects every man will do his dety—Arise .liritens ; free your brethren from pri son—God save the King." Acres advised Lem mocks to throw this paper into the fire ; but the latter said. no, lie would get it printed. Subse quently, Acres went, on the invitation of this Lummocks, to one or two meetings. At one of these Lummocks said lie would go into the next room, where the Secret Committee was thee sit ting. The attempt to attach mystery to that which was perfectly innocent, excited suspicion in the mind of Acres, and sifter smite time he followed Lummocks into the room to which he had thought proper to retire. Here he found the Committee to be a very select one,' as there was nobody in the room hut Lummocks himself. Thus detected, the fellow stammered, end proposed that a subscription should he entered into, in order to defray the ex *pence of sennieg persons round to ascertain what the people were disposed to do. On another day he inv ited two men, of the names of Irwin and George Barton, to attend a meeting under an aqueduct in Manchester, where he said a plan was to be discussed for setting the manufactories on tire. They refitted to attend, and thdeateued to inform against him if he mentioned such a project again. His answer was, " Why, we are already, sere of being taken up--I am, at least, alit! there fore we may as era take our reveege before-hand." Acres then told the men to whom this lan guage had heel: addressed that he seas sure Lun mocks was a spy. Lummocks afterwards went to the house of John Hoene. Hogue was LICn , at lame, but LuinntOcks told hi s family that -4..,,Yan cliester was to be buret that night, and that the fir e would blaze out in about rtvo hmtirs. Those •to whom he told this suppos e d him to be He Went away , ant! Met flo ;f iee 'with setae friendS, whoM he invited tO arm and go with him and others, to fire the barracks and libt;rate their friends. Hogue, upon ibis, said Lumniocks was a rascal, and advised those who were with hiM to. .come.away from him (Lmiimocks). He detailed other - proceedings 'Of a similar character, to thew the inNintotts industry of LattnnockS. Dewburst, in the same way, had laboured to Stimulate va rious individuals- to acts of outrage. He had been heard to say, that nothing would do bat an appeal to physical force. He had farther said, that he knew where there were a thousand gni--; peas in Manchester, and they might take them And get out of the country, if they could not get with the boSiness' in hand. Ile also kneW an olil Lady who lived in Ardwick- green, who had it great deal of plate, which lie wished he had to melt down, just to " set things a-going." Those to whom he addrested this language expressed hor ror at what they heard, and the Spy then pretend ed it was said hut in joke. The coarse taken by Waddington was nearly the same. In various ways he bad exerted himself to produce discontent and acts of insubordination, and had joined with Dewtitirst to attach an , air of guilty Mystery to meetings whiCh were of a perfectly innocent saa lure. They had endeavoured to perSuatle per -5005 whom. they prevailed upon to meet theta . at various places, that bodies of 60,000, of 70,000, and of 1 . 00,000 'Men, were advancing from different parts of the country to carry their plans into effect. In every instance they were represented • to have failed of making the impression they.desired to make, and those whom it was theitobject to seduce into rebellion, stedfastly retnied to attend to their pernicious counsel, and seemed to see through the Cheat. Fend) what had occurred, where they-,were con cerned, he contended no case had been made out to justify the Suspension of the Ilaheas Corpus Act ; for what was very extraordinary..was, that all their efforts to procure a meeting of - the cha racter they wished, did not bring more than 10 or I I persons together. The pubfiCation set forth by the Magistrates on the 10i h . Mate!), the language held by Mr. Hay on the 23d April, and the liberation of all the nelsons taken up as parties to this conspiracy, he next proceeded to animadvert trpon. From the conduct they had pursued, he most suppose the Ministers of the , Crown. lord found they themselves had been im posed upon, for if the persons.they had taken up were gnilty, it was inconsistent with the public safety that they should be seat back again to -do more tnitchief. Tb Cy ought to have been brought to trial. The whole , of these transactions ought honked into, and if an. ito lu iry took place, he was confident the 'a'cts WhiCh he had stated would turn out to he precisely what tlicy appeared to be from the Papers before hint. . . The I etnion kVAS then read, ordered to lie on the table, and to be ip-iittefl. F.S ON FMR,WE:EFI;EP-Q4/VMAGES• ?Ir. Mwrnues a,ked if tiny notice hid been tr.ll“tt by the Chancellor of the Exe;cyter of the exiottionate sarcharge o noide by the • Yttx , n'small four-Mit!cied Whi . ose ydlne dill not exceed 51. The CHANCELLO R of the EXCHEQUER said, the sin charges were j u stified by the lake a s i t at pre ,-, 1 sent stood, and there was ho!hinz partial or,un lair in what had been done by the Tax-Office. Ile was, however, •happy to say that the indulgence granted last yeAr %%lilt respect to agricultural horses, he was et Opinion, might be contioned this ; and in tli:e Bill to b,: brought in for that purpose, opini on s o me rem e dy f or th a t ot i" w (: l s ti e which the wa be; of lion. Gentleman lead complained might be int rodneed. SECRET' COMMITTEE. i)lr. BROUGHAM t(;ftsii — tile Noble Lord opposite when it might be expected the Secret Committee would ►cake their report ? Lord CASTLER'EAGH said, he looked for the re port to be made in a day or two. Mr. litrocronAm expressed a hope that the Hon. Gentleman near him would move that the very important petition which he hud presented from Manchester should be referred to a separate Committee. The Reports of the Committee of Supply and Ways and Means were brought up and agreed to. THE TREATY WITH SPAIN. Lord CAsTLEREAGH moved that the Address of the House to the Throne on the subject of the Slave Trade, agreed to in the last Session of Par liament, should be entered as read. An Hon. Member put a question respecting the Treaty with Portugal. Lord CAsTLErteAGH said, the Treaty was in principle similar to that concluded with Spain. ,but the consideration of it would not be clogged with any at rautzemeats more on advance of mo ney. The sum which it had stipulated should he had been advanced two years agO. The Noble Lord moved that the House should resolve 'itself into a Committee. Lord CASTLEREAGH, in bringing under the con sideration of the Committee the 'treaty concluded with his Catholic Majesty, and in bringing for- Ward a resolution in order to carry it into effect, was desirous that the Treaty shoold be ~e- t eed in connexion with the Address voted by the House in the last Session of Parliament, in which, not for the first time, they bad expressed their desire to proceed with that great cause, which circuan. stances had placed under the. special care of the British LegislAture. He wished the House to bear in mind what had been the prospect before them at the close of the last Session, with respect .to the abolition of the Slave Trade, and doing this they would better appreciate the alteration which had since been made in the state of that question. He would also-have them always remember, not on ly th e actual state of the law tencintf to abolish that'grear moral evil, but also the illiCit Slave Trade, which they knew from experien , 7e had grown out of the measures adopted heretofore, in order that they might consider of the means by which they could form their designs for putting an end to (Italic Slaves, int o success f u l execut i on . I t the was sAtistactosy to mark the progress the cause ,had made front year to year, but in none had it made greattr progress than iu the last, for ®s far , . A 9 11%t Went, there veal now, With the leecePtn 2 4,' of Portugal (which, however ; retained but one branich of the Sieve Trade, es her Subietts wer onlV pet mitted'let trade south of the line) no po.•er in 2terslie that hid nee Abolished this Trade, ()1' peeiod At which it shoeld terminate. It was true, that linless the subject was Still f" l7. lowed pp; so a; I to make the execution of the law correspond with the law itself; the result wouhl not be very Saii - sfactor, as in that case tile', would only have thined leghl into an illicit tiakle? But with respect to the leW; it was certain that an inimense wide loid been tli tie sincethe sub" ice( was last' betore (he Honee. There' was 119, , power in Ettropewhose cOrttihnetiCe or Whose ilisy continuance oethe Shiee Trade was oi equal int pottance with that 'of Spelt). When he ECMCM7 beret! . the 'disappointment •which had been expre 3 '7 Sett in that Hoese, on the occasion 'of atoyber great Power—France, in 1814, having; fieed,o distant' period (which would now have been 41 " most eepired) for the abolition of her Slave Trade and when be recalled the. satisfaction which was marked when sebsequeutly its inunediitteterntht n- 7 • tion ryas decreed, he was confidetst that the Flottee would exult with him that. Spain had at 10 , 0 13 been brought to consent to take so decisive a nit's 'lure as that announced by this Treaty. !Twee not Merely the.eitent of the Coloniesdf Spain drat made this measure important. So long -as the subjects of Spain could carry on an unrestrict ed traffic' in Slaves, both tO the Nofth • mid to the South of the Equatof, the ettbieete of Dentaseli end Sweden, and of other counts is e whose 13°' !vernments bad abolished the Slave Trade, tce re enabled to do the same. While the Spauislr i l " 4 would•cover such a ttafftc, it way earned 0:01 - t t tber countries illicitly almost to an unlimited ex" ent. But Spain having beett prevailed upon take, the course she hest taken; the Slave Tilt"' was placed in quite A. different geographical sit axe, don, and a great diminution Of it thisit necessari l y follow. Spain having engaged to give op hurtle' diately 'the whole of her trade in Slates (l) Ol d ! North of the line, and to name May 1 820 " tti latestperiod at Which she Will suffer it to he cO"" tinned to the South of the Lint no Slave, could in future be carried on to the Notch ot, - Equator., , From the time at which the ere'srrr Treaty should take effect, there could only he 4 , 'trade in Slaves to the South of the Line, and those engagedits' the tratlic must be ituturdieto',O., excluded from die IVest litdics Till now, 0(1 . , Inioatriine of demarcation could safely be drew" , hut muter thii - freaty no Slave Trade, as he hall alreadv'said, could eeist North - of the Lioe ; art 1820, it would only remain to pre" l - on ttegal to adt upon the saine principles had received the 'Sanction of eve' y other power, to abolish the teaffic in" Slaves in all of the world. But there was a wide distioctlo9' ,bi'tweee abolishin.gahe trade by law, and bring ing about that state of Olives which toede tt practicable to carry such !mai into execetion. --e Though. the several ,Powers. in Europe s a u cer( If wished teapot en, end,to the Slave Trade ; a udehe Congrese.at Vitene, if it bast ac.7.onsiilt:lled.t. thing else; would hive deqerved w e ll of flee te ; t ll, : i fl: humanity ,for having e fer the .first time. brottg:''' „11 "the great Powevs of P.;:rop. - .;t0.,v , .'t1w- i r--! -- ", nonnce a sente n ce of it bad d • ins iu4de 1 " t ot it as soon as this co, d ,od Withont volving any • great of (he'll- That sentence of coiefeetnatien Which bad b eet contained in the ot the proceediogi:, a , V(enna, had been since. earrie;l itao every sat e. ' , State, Hod sideserihed to by all who had' not ii? tire first instance sent representatives to the Though much had abeedy b,'en done, it wat;t l a- to mislead the 1-louse to say that all that the venal Sovereigns who adopted our policy ' ll9 ` t. willed, had as yet been accomplished. Noti vi , ll) l , standin l g tint stipulations made, and the laws had been framed, the illicit trade of which he 1 " tc before spoken was carried on to a considestabl e ex tent, and especially since the terminall" ttF the war. He would not say it was cote' . cl c on to_ a greeter extent than formerly, trt ,.. be %could say it - was carried on with more de g f iteration, and with greater circumstances 'II inhumanity, than was customary hefore so neu c ee, had been done to abolish it. This, it was nu' viuus, must be expected, as the individnate w 1;:: engaged in it would be more desperate than t} c former traders, and would fit up their vessels, O r with any regard to the comfort of the 1 0(1 ; wretches they were' intended to receive, bull 11 such a way as would best prepare them for e° 11 %., - • bat or escape. It was in vain to disguise fact, that the traffic was thin continued under Cl cornstances of More disgraceful inhumanity 0 11 formetly. Still, however, it was fit that he sho'l state, that there existed no reason for sosneet ili • s f tiny of the Powers engaged to abolish it of a sO n i, of sincerity. France had shown every eispo , i tit to take the most efficient measures for putting. Il e end to it. He had not had occasion to apply that Gtivernnient on the subject on a late Ocea''' • sion, as he had been reqeested by the French sister to furnish him with all the necessary i n- . formationao he forwarded to his Court, that a stop • might be put to the proceedings which had transa-: Aired, and he believed already effectual steps 113 been taken foe that purpose by the French G a .' ye; meet. Becense all was not done that W e • could wish• to see accomplished. we ought 00C therefore to suspect other Governments of bei f ,, P4 unwilling, to go along with us in this great WI; :But in a greater fraudulent ,Slave was cart iterouelian in wir; and we had not tfr e same means oriedressing the evil now as forn' e ..ee r.. :y belonged tit us in mir belligerent character . The right of visiting neutral ships was gOl'e' that if this right were not, to be menially ceded to each other by the Powers erigagiee r '" , put all ef•ill,io tuts Slave Trade, it was for the same remedy to be applied in peace as e` l wee. lie admated this to the House, that I c might not be supposed, becastat they had en; • f ` ► i • the 13 " stage of their diffieulties, that they got to the I.atstageof exertitel. I t ;vas desire" We to take this trade from the protection of o'er! sla g , As if blit. (Me reinained c ,,,v c e it, 1 00 " . that flag it would he carries; on by the yeople et' t! all countries. Under thee present Treaty, tle? • peace might 110 longer brand between us , tie r 0' r object, for the first time, a mutual 'right It :I', been given" by the High Contracting Powas to \iv